Diphtheria
Diphtheria is a serious infectious disease of the respiratory system caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Now a rare disease, it ravaged the world in the late nineteenth cen...
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Diphtheria
Diphtheria is a potentially fatal, contagious disease that usually involves the nose, throat, and air passages, but may also infect the skin. Its most striking feature is the formation of a...
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Diphtheria
Diphtheria is a potentially fatal, contagious bacterial disease that usually involves the nose, throat, and air passages, but may also infect the skin. Its most striking feature is the form...
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Diphtheria
Diphtheria is a serious infectious disease of the respiratory system caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Now a rare disease, it ravaged the world in the late nineteenth cen...
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Diphtheria
An acute bacterial infection characterized by the formation of a gray or yellowish-white membrane over the throat and nasal passages.
Diptheria can affect any of the body's mucus mem...
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Bretonneau was the first person to study and describe fully the symptoms of diphtheria, and gave the disease its name. He also believed there was a difference between typhoid fever and typhus, which w...
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Berlin (dpa) - Children with chronic rheumatism, Juvenile
Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) for example, don't simply suffer from an
immune system disorder. The disease, combined w...
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For the first time in at least a decade, the vaccination rate for black children in the United States has caught up to that of youngsters in other racial groups, the government reported T...
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BOSTON (Reuters) - The smallpox vaccine protects for
a lifetime, and so does actual an infection of measles or
mumps, according to the first long-term study of immunity to
childhood diseases. And,...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vaccines have cut deaths
from the diseases they prevent by 99 percent, U.S. government
researchers reported Tuesday. They looked at the rates of both disease and deaths for ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Only 2 percent of U.S.
adults last year got a shot that can protect them from painful
bouts of shingles, health officials said Wednesday in a
study that shows what they call...
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The growing list of childhood vaccinations reads like an alphabet soup: Hib, HepA, HepB, IPV, PCV, MCV4, DTaP, Tdap, varicella and influenza.
Parents dragging their kids to the doctor's of...
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Mississippi health officials say 750 children and adults in the Newton area may need new vaccinations because the drugs used initially may have been stored at too cold a temperature and their ...
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Hanoi (dpa) - Investigators are conducting tests on a batch of
Hepatitis-B vaccine manufactured in Vietnam, after two children died
in recent weeks shortly after being injec...
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Kalimantan, Indonesia (dpa)- Kalimantan is in the Indonesian part
of Borneo and lies in the south of the world's third-largest island.
To the north there are the two Malaysi...
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AmerisourceBergen Corp., one the nation's largest drug distributors, said Thursday its quarterly profit fell 28 percent due to a vaccine inventory writedown and a loss from discontinued operations....
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Childhood rheumatism opens door for other ailments
